43 thoughts on “Sunday Roast: Road Trip pics”

I haven’t been up that way since the mid-70’s, so it’s nice to see there’s still a ‘little bit’ of open space left. Reminds me of what Barry Goldwater once said about rural Arizona — it went something like “it’s a land where you can see for three days” since that’s how long it would take your horse to get you there.

Thanks too for not showing even a single wingnut! That can be a real chore in some places! 🙂

The gorgeous and tasty wood duck. Also one of the best environmental success stories in human history. Once all but extinct due to the destruction of the standing dead trees they nest in and the wetlands they live in; they are now among the most common ducks in North America.

Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection is tasked with protecting the state’s “air, water and land.” But there’s one environmental threat you won’t hear DEP officials talking about.

Officials at Florida’s DEP have banned the words “climate change” and “global warming” from all official communications, including reports and emails, according to an investigation published Sunday by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR).

I guess that when Miami is under water due to melted polar ice, Florida will have something else to blame. Wonder who or what they’ll pick? Obama? Iran?

Next on the list: Agricultural runoff causing algae blooms and turtle grass deserts to be renamed “nutrient redistribution through marine plant life elimination”.
ATV’s will be renamed “Wilderness access devices or “wads”

When I play Text Twist, I have to suffer through the ads preceding the game (’cause I’m not going to pay to play), and usually the same ad comes up after one has finished several puzzles. The Sprint ad came up the other night, and after seeing it the first time, I made sure to remember to look away when it came back on. It looks creepy – is there music to it, and, if so, does it make it better? I refuse to turn the sound on! 🙂

Oh great. The lead subject for the Sunday “news” shows was Hillary’s emails. Funny. There seemed to be no mention of the fact that she has stated her intent to hand them all over to anyone with the clearance to read them. There was no mention of the millions of emails that were scrubbed by various members of the Bush Administration. And there certainly wasn’t any mention of the fact that said Administration flat-out defied innumerable subpenas related to said emails.

It’s a really good way to ignore Obama’s speech in Selma. In fact, it’s a good way to ignore all that equality shit, all those mentions of today’s voter suppression laws, all that talk about killin’ ni99er kids when it don’t make no nevermind. I mean, if we gonna BE impotent we gotta ACT impotent. Something like that.

I really do weep for this country, what it’s become — and worse, where it’s headed.